{"id":549,"date":"2006-05-23T16:55:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=549"},"modified":"2006-05-23T16:55:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T20:55:24","slug":"data-and-noise-in-high-stakes-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=549","title":{"rendered":"Data and noise in high-stakes testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\/archives\/2006_05_21_archive.html#114841330597074352\">Eduwonk<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/roomd2.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/obligatory-blogging-about-cahsee.html\">thoughtful reflection on the graduation-exam lawsuit in California<\/a>.  The blogger, T.M.A.O., has a response that&#8217;s full of interesting tensions. For example, there&#8217;s the criticism of problematic high-stakes testing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like the outcome of a presidential election with pervasive voter fraud, the results of a high school exit exam emerging from a grossly unjust system provide no basis for forward thinking, only evidence of the need for reform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; and then something on the obligations of schools &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lack of motivation, poverty, ELL status, family troubles&#151;there is no excuse for the failure to educate kids, only poor attempts to rationalize and explain away that failure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to her or him for expressing the tensions so well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Eduwonk, a thoughtful reflection on the graduation-exam lawsuit in California. The blogger, T.M.A.O., has a response that&#8217;s full of interesting tensions. For example, there&#8217;s the criticism of problematic high-stakes testing&#8230; Like the outcome of a presidential election with pervasive voter fraud, the results of a high school exit exam emerging from a grossly unjust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-8R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}